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[pearwaldorf]

Ladies of the f-list, I have a question for you.


So I saw this AskMefi question and this related Jezebel post (warning: super duper gross) about forgetting to take a tampon out.

I'm not a tampon user because I find them uncomfortable, so this is completely alien to me. How likely is it that you're going to forget one's up there? I mean, even if you're busy, surely you're going to feel it, just a little bit? And forgetting it for a week and having sex with it in? There must be women with utterly cavernous vaginas out there if they can't feel a tampon and a penis crammed into the same place. Oh god, my cooch is so traumatized right now. And I'm utterly amazed at the resilience of the human body.

(I have a classmate who psychomatically gave herself symptoms of TSS when she was in undergrad. She called the ambulance herself right before she passed out. It sounds totally traumatic, but even hearing the story second-hand was enough to make me laugh until I cried.)

Comments

[eponis.livejournal.com]

So, uh, I've actually forgotten that I had one up there before ::blushes::. Not for a week, maybe, but I noticed it because I was like "hey, there's a string dangling out . . . oh, right!", not because it's particularly noticeable otherwise. It depends on the size of the tampon -- some of them are really quite small -- and probably on the size and shape of the woman. As for sex, I imagine the guy would feel it, but the woman wouldn't necessarily; that's been my experience with Instead, anyway.

[embossedsilver.livejournal.com]

I've forgotten it was there before, but never longer than a day. Pretty much once you shower with it, you know it's there.

[safti]

I agree wholeheartedly with this. I once forgot until I had a shower, but . . . the little ones really can be little and don't constantly feel present.

[nebst.livejournal.com]

Oh god why did I read that Jezebel article. D:

I've (mostly) switched to the Mooncup now, but from over a decade of tampon usage: I seriously doubt I could even fit a second tampon in without noticing the first, let alone a penis. There'd be some resistance as the first tampon got pushed further back, if not outright pain.

To be honest, I've never quite understood the concept of losing anything inside the vagina in the first place. I mean, I can usually touch my cervix with the tips of my fingers. There's just not enough room to actually lose things.

[eponis.livejournal.com]

I can usually touch my cervix with the tips of my fingers.

This is where I get jealous. :-) My boyfriend can't touch my cervix with his fingers, let alone me. I wonder how much variation there is among women (and can't stop thinking about that chapter of the Kama Sutra (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/kama/chapter6.html). maybe I'm an elephant. . . ?).

[nebst.livejournal.com]

That's a good point, of course. I should also mention that I have freakishly long fingers. :P

I knew about the Kama Sutra classifications, but I'd never read the whole chapter. Thanks for the link!

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

There must be quite a bit of variation. When I got my IUD inserted, my NP was basically all "Your girlbits. They are so tiny!" So I guess I'm a hare?

[threerings.livejournal.com]

Never forgotten a tampon. Usually I'm constantly aware that one is in there. I have, however, lost a condom up in there. We thought it went somewhere in the bed, but a week later I was standing in my doom room and PLOP, something came out. GROSS.

And on the size issue, I think there is a lot of variation. Plus, it varies for the individual depending on place in cycle and state of arousal, I believe. And then one time my doctor couldn't even find my cervix because it was hiding behind my (at the time tilty) uterus.

[somuchlove2give.livejournal.com]

i didnt use tampons until i learned that i just wasnt shoving them in far enough. and even know i'm picky, i only use one brand.

but i can totally see how you could leave one up there. i've woken up and been like "wait did i take it out last night? do i have one in now?" and i have to check.

but i cant imagine having sex with it in and not realizing that. um.